2336 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Was that fresh squid ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then you went to the Banks aud completed your trip ? A. Well, 

 part of a trip ; we didn't get much of a trip at that. 



Q. You completed your 78,000 pounds ? A. Yes. 



Q. And returned home ? A. Yes. 



Q. What time did yon get home ? A. I could not exactly say. 



Q. Now, this year, what vessel were you in ? A. The Noonday again. 



Q. What were YOU doing this year ? A. Salt-fishing. 



Q. All the year ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many trips have you made ? A. I am on the second now. 



Q. Returning home ? A. No. 



Q. Are you going out now? A. I am going to the Banks. I have 

 made one trip. 



Q. How much did you take ? A. Off and on about 100,000. 



Q. Where did you get bait for that trip ? A. At Fortune Bay. 



Q. What time of the year ? A. About the 10th of May, the first bait. 



Q. You live at Gloucester. A. Yes. 



Q. What time did you leave Gloucester? A. We left on the 2d day 

 of March. 



Q. Where did you go in the interim between that and the 10th of 

 May ? A. F.ishing on the Banks, on Grand Bank. 



Q. What bait did you use ? A. We took a little bait from home 

 enough to start with. I was fishing halibut, salt halibut. 



Q. With what bait were you fishing? A. We caught bait on the 

 ground. 



Q. You went from home without any bait at all ? A. We took enough 

 to start with. 



Q. What did you take? A. About two or three thousand herring 

 three thousand. 



Q. They were frozen herring ? A. Yes. 



Q. Wl e e did you get them ? A. They came from down East. 



Q. Did you go directly from that into Fortune Bay for fresh bait ? 

 A. I fished on the Banks near two months. 



Q. Did you go from that, after the 10th of May, to Fortune Bay for 

 fresh bait ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you catch any bait in Fortune Bay ? A. No. 



Q. Had you a herring seine on board ? A. No. 



Q. Did you see many of your countrymen in there looking for bait ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. A great many of them ? A. A good many. 



Q. Did they catch bait themselves, some of them ? A. No, they never 

 catch bait. They have it seined there. 



Q. Were you on board their vessels? A. Yes, I was. 



Q. Are you not aware that many of them take down large herring 

 seines and get bait themselves ? A. I never heard it. 



Q. You never heard of their having barred any of the coves there? 

 A. No. 



Q. During the last spring, in Fortune Bay, have they not barred her- 

 rings in the coves ? A. O, yes ; they have them barred as long as six 

 weeks waiting for the Americans to come for them ; that is the natives 

 I am speaking of. 



Q. Have not the American cod-fishers, some of them, taken large 

 herring-seines with them and used them for taking herring aud barring 

 the coves? A. No; I haven't heard of it. 



Q. You are now going out on your second trip ? A. Yes. 



